Introducing Camera+ 5, featuring The Lab

With this huge *free* update, we’re very happy to present to you The Lab, which brings world-class photo editing to your iPhone. Our goal was to bring you best quality adjustments, delivered in a very slick UI, and we think we’ve really nailed it.

Here’s what you’ll find in it…

Clarity Pro

At the head of The Lab you’ll find Clarity Pro, which gives you adjustable Clarity and also adds a Vibrancy Boost adjustment which really brings out the life in your photos.

Straighten

Not only can you manually straighten your photos in The Lab… we’ve also included a slick auto-straighten feature.

Tint

Easily tone your photos whatever color you please. Go just a tad to set a subtle mood, all-out to make a bold statement, or anything in-between. And if you’re having a hard time choosing a color, simply roll the dice to get a random one… will it come up lucky seven or snake eyes??

Duotone

This takes the Tint adjustment and brings it to a whole other level. Try it. We’ll leave it at that.

Soft Focus

Give your photos a beautiful, ethereal quality with Soft Focus. This one’s addictive so promise not to overuse it, ok?

Film Grain

For the look of analog film. Fully adjustable so you can get the exact look you want.

Sharpen

This can often be the answer to a photo that came out a bit blurry.

Blur

Soften harsh pics. Or go to the extreme to make the perfect iOS 7 wallpapers. More on this later… ?😉

Saturation

Take it down for a cool, faded look. Or crank it up to make your pics pop.

Temperature

Easily enables you to make your pics look “warmer” or “cooler”. It can be used for a simple compensation, or turned way up for a bold look.

Exposure

Photo overexposed? Underexposed? This is the fix.

Brightness & Contrast

Two classic photo adjustments. You’d think that not much needs to be said about these two… but we went out of our way to make them look really good.

Highlights & Shadows

Boost or cut the bright and/or dark parts of your photos. Compensate for imperfect lighting conditions, or go for an intense, artistic effect.

Vignette

Top-off the perfect set of adjustments with a stylish Vignette. Not only can you put on a traditional dark one, you can also go light for an airy feel.

Camera+ for iPad users please note: We have an update in the works for Camera+ for iPad that’ll be bringing all the goodness of The Lab over to the Big Screen. We tried hard to get it done in time to launch simultaneously with the iPhone version, but we didn’t make it. We wanted to let you know that we haven’t forgot about you at all and we have some very nice things in the works for iPad.

Shooting refinements

We’ve taken yet another pass at streamlining the shooting experience in Camera+. In Camera+ 5, we’ve split the exposure compensation and exposure lock controls so that you can have even easier access to each.

iPhone wallpaper crops

As mentioned earlier, Camera+ 5 enables you to make some very awesome iOS 7- style wallpapers. Here’s the ticket: Simply grab one of your favorite pics and take it to The Lab. Then crank the blur way up and add a touch of saturation. Apply one of the new iPhone wallpaper crops, and voilà… a nifty iOS 7 wallpaper is born!

A Tale of Two Dicks

We’ve renamed Effects to Filters and Borders to Frames. We’re letting you know so you can avoid that feeling you got when Bewitched switched Darrins and Roseanne switched Beckys on you without uttering a word.

New icons throughout the app

Dozens of icons in the app have been redone and have the perfect look to go with iOS 7.

Shiny, new app icon

And the most obvious icon that changed for Camera+ 5 is the app icon itself. It was hard for us to let go of the old icon. But we came up with one that captures the essence of the longstanding Camera+ icon (albeit in abstract form), and fits like a glove on the first page of your home screen alongside all your other iOS 7 icons.

Say hello to Jack Hollingsworth

Since the earliest days of Camera+, professional photographer Jack Hollingsworth has been a very prolific user of the app. Today I’m happy to announce that Jack’s officially become a member of the Camera+ team. In the coming weeks, you’ll be seeing a lot more of him around here and he’s got some pretty cool things lined-up for you. Here’s a little look at some of his work…

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What? ANOTHER free update from you guys? You guys SUCK! How dare you produce what is the best camera app for iOS without filling it with obnoxious IAPs forcing me to buy coins and gems to take and edit photos. You’re doing it all wrong!

Great attention to detail - like the super tiny icons (what’s a retina display for, after-all) in The Lab to easily switch between the functions without leaving that section, a date stamp for the border captions, and of course, adjustable Clarity.

This update made my day. I can’t wait to play with it later. I think the only thing missing now is facial recognition. If you guys add that, the other apps might as well just close up shop. Keep up the amazing work.

Switched to Android from my iP4 for several reasons. The ONLY thing I’m missing on my new shiny Galaxy 4 is Camera+ and I do miss it a lot. Any chance of an Android version? I would pay a lot for that!

I like the new lab, but why the tiny row of icons after you select one of the lab tools? (I know the larger icons are on the previous screen but tiny ones after you’re within a tool are pretty difficult to hit except maybe for ants).

Great work. I still have my iphone so thats great but hey how about an app for windows phone. Hipstamatic did it with Oggl. Imagine the awesomeness (might not be a real word but hey) on a lumia 1020 or 1520. The platform is begging for great apps. Just a thought and seasons greeting to all from downunder. Cheers.

Generally a phenomenal update in terms of functionality - but on my 4S IOS7 the app randomly crashes out when saving photos. If it crashes once on a photo it will never save it out from Lightroom Really irritating at Xmas! Half the shots of my nephew and family round the tree save - the other half don’t. Not sure if it’s one tool from the Lab that kills it - or a combination of tools. Will you be fixing / updating this???

I have problems with saving photos from the lightbox to camera roll after using the function The Lab .The other photos are saved correctly. I’m using an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.04
please can you help me? Thanks
Daido

Hello, could you please advise on when the issue with the app crashing in iOS 7 after the most recent update will be resolved? I have trawled through a number of forums with regard to this issue and noted that quite a number of users have experienced this problem as well. I have been a satisfied user of Camera+ for about 2-3 years now and do not want to be forced to defect because of this! Cheers!

Good afternoon guys.
For more or less three weeks now your “fabulous” App doesn’t work on my iPhone 5S under iOS 7.04. Regarding the comments of a couple of users for who the App seems to work, you must be really good at delivering fancy functions.

What about the obligatory ones? Don’t take yourselves too much time to resolve that issue, I’d like to take some X-Mas 2014 pictures with the camera+ App.

Lab is great, but I’m getting chary of updates: this time too when I go to take a picture, too frequently the screen is black. It will photograph—haphazardly—but I can’t see til I go to the lightbox. Looking forward to the debug.

The update was OUTRAGEOUS. And the “Lab” was awesome. I really love it. But the thing that lacks here is the “BIG BUTTON” shutter button since it will be a great plus if it will be included in an upcoming update.

I really love this app. Since it’s the one i have been using since i had my iPhone with me.

Unfortunately, freezes when trying to save photos to camera roll after editing. Other than this major disappointment, it is the best camera app in my opinion. I hope this bug gets fixed so I can use it again!

i loved this camera,,,,,,,,,,,used it sucessfully for over 1000 images…………then suddenly my camera+ pictures are not saving on their own…they do not save to the “camera roll” or what ever the other choice iphone4s has……..they did before….like thursday, but not today, saturday….why…..i had to download ios7…..and the images do not save to anything??????please help, an obsessed picture taker

Hi, Camera+ is such a complete app, except for 4 things that i miss a lot : 1) A NOISE REDUCTION filter, especially for dark scenes. 2) A PERSPECTIVE correction, especially for correcting barrel distortions. 3) A NIGHT SHOT MODE (similar to PRO CAMERA 7) and 4) A 16/9 format for shooting ((similar to PRO CAMERA 7). With these 4 features added, Camera+ will be the best photo app on iOS !

It’s been 6 months since the Lab update for iPhone was announced. Where has the iPad version gone?? It can’t take this long to get Camera+ to work on an iPad? Really missing you Camera+! Don’t abandon us!

Have emailed a few times now because ClarityPro hasn’t worked in months and no one responds. ClarityPro freezes the app and I have to force close and restart. Please fix this as I’d like to use the feature.

I bought this app when it came out and use it exclusively, but if support can’t even write back, I can always look for something else…

I use to have a iPhone and i love this app one of the best.. but I have a android now and I wish I could download this app but I can’t find it please create this same camera+5 app for android I would really appreciate it Thanks

Hey guys. I just needed to know if you’re releasing camera+ for android anytime soon, cause I switched my iphone 4s for a galaxy s5 but I can’t live without your app. I’d love a quick response to come back to iphone again

I would be pleased if this app was available on playstore for android users …I have never used such quality as on my friend’s iPhone until now and I know it will be a good challenger for other camera apps on there

Just downloaded the app to my iphone 4s (with IOS 7.1.2) and am having the same save issues… the screen freezes or it just stops loading the images taken and edited with the Camera + app to my camera roll… any way to get this to work because the utility for shooting/editing seems phenomenal?